Modern Fabulousity

This site has a lot to offer, but this page of the top ten videos is interesting. I agree with a lot of them.

Those of you who are not sure about Bjork should definitely watch "It's Oh So Quiet". You will love her after you see it.

Today, Sunday, July 16th.
(With the exception of the Bodies exhibit, which follows...)


Luca and I posed patriotically today, as we always do around this time of year, in front of the Liberty Bell.

But first, he came over to my house to view my new living room furntiture and my new sleigh bed, which he approved of. We had some lovely Yirgah Chaffe coffee and a slice of Belgian Chocloate Mouuse Cake, which although I had spent a lot to procure, I thought a bit rich. We talked a bit and then went to the nearby Kohl's department store since luca had a thirty dollah coupon! He bought some new white trainers, (luca throws his old trainers away at the first sign of smudge. It's true!) I bought some ankle socks to wear with my Crocs. Btw, luca once again said that he would never, ever buy a pair of Crocs, ever! Of course, I find this highly amusing.

We went first to the "Bodies" show at the Tropicana, which I've covered in the prevous post and then we went to Macau's for enormous Chimichangas. We got a $1.12 discount on each of our entrees, because that was the high temp for the previous day! Today, I think it hit 115...

Next, we went down to the strip, parking at the Gold Coast, because it's easy to do. We took the walkways over to the Bellagio, to see the seasonal floral exhibit there.


A miniture Bellagio!


I'm sure that Alex is reliving his recent visit..


After that, we went to retrieve the car, so we had to pass through thre Gold Coast. I noticed one of my favorite slot machines, a "Double Triple Cherry" and played it to great success coming out sixty dollars ahead.

Next, we went north to the fabulous Fashion Show Mall! It's a very big mall on the strip with all of the big department stores as anchors and lots of fashionable shops.

And there is often a fashion show...




Most amusing. The models were very young and mostly inexperinced. The boys looked like they would rather be almost anywhere else and the girls looked like they were willing to do anything at all to live the glamorous life of the catwalk. One poor thing was particularly inept at that cross legged, high heel walk that the pro models do; she looked like she was marching through a bog in hip waders.

We continued through the mall, stopping at a wonderful shop called "teavana". You get it, of course; tea plus nirvana... I wanted some Irish Breakfast tea and the clerk told me that it was $3.20 for two ounces, but she was obviously disappointed at my choice, so I asked for four ounces. Then she asked my if I had a tin to keep my tea safe in and I told her "Yes!" as if I actually had such a tin and who in their right mind wouldn't have one! It's a wonderful shop really; the aroma is intoxicating.

We meandered through the rest of the mall, checking out Z-Gallerie, which had nothing much realy and then got back in the car. luca came back to the house for another piece of chocolate mousse cake and a beverage and we talked for a while and checked e-mail and looked at pics of various naked mens on the net as one does. Then there was a fairly strong wind storm for a while, and then it was getting dark, so he headed back north to his home.

I decided that I needed cigs, so I went to the local to get them. The wind was still very strong and it took two tries to get the gate to open in the wind so I could get out of my complex.

The wind has died down now and I am sitting in my garage, downstairs typing away and watching the dessert crickets skitter around beneath my feet. Poor things; soon they will be dead as I have sprayed the entire garage, per luca's instructions. It's not that they are like the cockroaches that I lived with in New Orleans; they seem to be clean and efficient little insects. It' s just that although they might prefer to live outside, they do get into your house and then they make so much noise, so it's better that they don't.

BTW, the Irish Breakfast Tea is fabulous!



-durlx

A very odd show!


Luca and I went to the "Bodies" exhibit at the Tropicana today and I must say that I had an interesting reaction to it. I mean, here were these strangely preserved bodies and body parts of actual humans; somebody alive at one time used these preserved bits in their daily lives. Now that's a very intimate and somewhat shocking thing to contemplate, and that is of course, the entire point of this kind of exhibit. It reminded me of one of those Victorian exhibits, "presented for the purposes of education and enlightenment", like the Elephant man. Or even like the doctor on the old porn loops, who would inform you that the "film you are about to see, etc."

What we saw were all these creatures, escaped from the morgue of a mad doctor. What we were told throughout the exhibit was that we were being educated and we were learning about our own bodies so we could become healthier. What rubish. There were families there today with their kids, many under the age of ten years, which I thought crazy; what better way to give your pre-schoolers nightmares and make them behave!

There was one part of the freak show, (I mean the "educational exhibit" ), where you were cautioned that you might want to skip a part and take a different door, and that was the fetus part. Brilliant! As if the flayed and wierdly displayed remains had not been enough, especially considering that up until this point, every dramatically posed cadaver sported a penis. (Oh, yes... and many of the cadavers were posed with footballs, basketballs and tennis rackets, so sporty!).

But it seemed that mostly everyone was buying into the educational aspect of this; if one doesn't, then one is a ghoul, only there to peep and gawk.

At 24 bucks a pop, (3 bucks off for Nevada residents, but you have to ask for it), it's a peep show for ghouls and gawkers, but don't let that put you off.

I'd rather see Celine; just as creepy, but still alive.

Casual in Istanbul: Broadway Bares 16

I wish I was on Broadway for this!

By the way, this site, Casual in Istanbul is sweet.